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[Nerraw]

Had a modern version of Angry German Kid on my team. Best part of this patch is the new report sections.

[Frozen Death Knight]

Several losses for me as well. One of the most frustrating days of playing the game I've ever had. Nothing but losses in Hero League and Quick Match is not better.

[Sir Andy]

and more losses. as usual. my favorite champion is one that requires the team to be good.

Amen. When I play Falstad, it's like I'm an idiot zapper that the idiots fly towards.

[Botutu]

We were kinda losing hard but this moment made up for the entire game !
http://www.twitch.tv/doubletapgg/v/11237242

[Sorissa]

I had forgotten how much I hate solo queueing on patch days. Amateur week. -.-

I'm avoiding ranked in the next 2 weeks, just playing aba for lolzies in QM.

[Pandragon]

Team full of casters, me on Kharazim and an abathur. Enemy team 2 levels ahead all game. Finally the Abathur listened to me that im the one he needs to be placing his symbiote on in team fights, and we started steam rolling them. After game found out why it was so hard. Our Falstad went basic attack build so he was doing crap damage, and as usual. The Gazlowe was robo ult build meaning he was useless in team fights. Why can't Gazlowes understand that not only is it a crap ult...but its 2000% crappier when you have a Falstad on your team. And I hope in time people will finally learn. When you hear mystic chanting. Dont freaking run away youre not going to die!

[Nerraw]

I'm avoiding ranked in the next 2 weeks, just playing aba for lolzies in QM.

I'm doing my placement matches with two friends. There's no way I'm doing that alone for at least a week.

[Tekkommo]

I'm doing my placement matches with two friends. There's no way I'm doing that alone for at least a week.

Any idea how the placement matches work?

Is it just purely on win/loss ratio? Such a flawed system, but I fully understand that it would be very hard to implement an intelligent system that can rank your individual performance as there is many factors.

[Nerraw]

Any idea how the placement matches work?

Is it just purely on win/loss ratio? Such a flawed system, but I fully understand that it would be very hard to implement an intelligent system that can rank your individual performance as there is many factors.

I don't have a clue. We'll see when I'm done with them. So far I have a higher-than-50% win rate but that's sure to change.

[Deleted]

Any idea how the placement matches work?

Is it just purely on win/loss ratio? Such a flawed system, but I fully understand that it would be very hard to implement an intelligent system that can rank your individual performance as there is many factors.

Probably similar to Starcraft, but Im not exactly sure how they do that.
Considering they are keeping mmr they are probably matchmaking you with that somehow, and together with that + win/loss estimates your placement. I would guess it would be something like that

[Well]

Joined a QM today (3k MMR), and I get paired with a lili, who calls for "/ff" when we are lvl 6, and proceeds to actually FEED in HOTS!!!1!!11!! I honestly have no words:

a) Why the fuck does she even feed? Hasn't she come back in a game with a difference of even 5 lvls, ever?

b) It's a freaking QM, what's with the attitude?

c) What the fuck does she get for herself by feeding? I don't understand at all.

d) Why would she waste 20mins of her life feeding? I don't UNDERSTAND AT FUCKING ALL.

If you're that Lili player, stop playing online games. It's bad for you.

[Deleted]

Any idea how the placement matches work?

Is it just purely on win/loss ratio? Such a flawed system, but I fully understand that it would be very hard to implement an intelligent system that can rank your individual performance as there is many factors.

I have seen that after some HL games you will get a "Skill Bonus" on your rank points if you did particularly well in a game that you won.

So it could be based on W/L ratio with a bit of influence from "Skill", though I'm not certain of how that's calculated. Perhaps K/D / Role performance during the game

[Nerraw]

I have seen that after some HL games you will get a "Skill Bonus" on your rank points if you did particularly well in a game that you won.

So it could be based on W/L ratio with a bit of influence from "Skill", though I'm not certain of how that's calculated. Perhaps K/D / Role performance during the game

People have speculated like crazy on what the skill bonus entails. No one has found a satisfying explanation yet.

In other news, people still underestimate Sonya's potential for damage output. Holy crap! Those triple kills are amazing to get.

[ophion1990]

Any idea how the placement matches work?

Is it just purely on win/loss ratio? Such a flawed system, but I fully understand that it would be very hard to implement an intelligent system that can rank your individual performance as there is many factors.

You get a rank based on your MMR, you can never get a rank higher than 5 though, afaik. Which is ridiculous since you still have no clue what your actual MMR is if you don't use a third party website, so you're left completly in the dark for 20 games.

Overall I'm not sure how much has changed, I feel like you still have to 3 stack to climb if you wanna maintain your sanity. If anything I felt like I got grouped with more idiots than before the patch, the pool of games is too small to really make a call though.

[Sorissa]

Don't you just love when QM puts you versus a two tank team with nothing to kill two tanks with? So they just right click your team to win?

Fun times.

[Deleted]

I had a Nova call me the "worst noob in 40 levels" for using the garden terror to destroy a gate and a fort. Apparently I should have been roaming the map ganking heroes with it cause it does so much hero damage. They even whispered me after the match to continue harassing me about it (after I'd already blocked/reported them, not sure how they could still whisper me).

I had a Johanna declare a match lost before it was even started because...... I killed the treasure goblin. I didn't even need the goblin as I'd already played several matches that day, I was just doing it for whoever it was that needed it still, to be nice. Being nice gets you called out, harassed all game and blamed for a defeat that hadn't even happened yet... She went afk a couple of minutes in because of this.

I'm still confused about both of these

Also countless QM games lately that consist of comps like 3 tanks + 2 specialists. Or 2 tanks + 2 healers + abathur. Or 3 tanks + murky + abathur etcetc. Sometimes we win because the enemy team is so confused, but mostly I want to cry! So I go and play an assassin to try and get a comp with some damage, and it ends up being 4 assassins and another squishy specialist. It's seems with QM you either get zero sustain comps, or zero damage comps. Fabulous -_-

[Deleted]

People have speculated like crazy on what the skill bonus entails. No one has found a satisfying explanation yet.

In other news, people still underestimate Sonya's potential for damage output. Holy crap! Those triple kills are amazing to get.

I have never gotten skill bonus after an amazing performance.

The times I have gotten skill bonus:
- Played with lower skilled friends, lost a couple of ranks, queued on my own, won the games and it put me back to where I was
- DC'd and dropped 3 ranks. Won the following game and got skill bonus that gave me 3 ranks.


Its just to do with MMR and where the system thinks you should be. There's no reward for being MVP, unfortunately.

I had a Johanna declare a match lost before it was even started because...... I killed the treasure goblin. I didn't even need the goblin as I'd already played several matches that day, I was just doing it for whoever it was that needed it still, to be nice. Being nice gets you called out, harassed all game and blamed for a defeat that hadn't even happened yet... She went afk a couple of minutes in because of this.

How dare you waste that mana on a treasure goblin!!111!1!!1!!

[Deleted]

How dare you waste that mana on a treasure goblin!!111!1!!1!!

Ironically I spent no mana on it!

[Deleted]

Ironically I spent no mana on it!

well... &$%* you for doing other people favours!

[Imnick]

You even get your mana restored after killing the goblin :P